The southwest coast of Haizhou Island in front of us is basically a primitive jungle!

It was also the first time that Wang Zifu, the head of the yamen runners, took the fugitives to Cangsha Ferry.

Wang Zifu looked at the desolate ferry and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

He had to wait for the He family's merchant ship to return and then take it back.

Wouldn't he have to spend a miserable time on Haizhou Island during this period?

This is not just a punishment for the fugitives, but also for the yamen runners!

He had already looked at the map several times and considered that the southwest coast was far away from the mainland, unlike the north coast, which had several counties of varying sizes with permanent residents. But he still couldn't help but ask, "Is the route wrong?"

The helmsman said firmly, "I'm following the blueprints you gave me. How could I dare make a mistake? My life is in your hands!"

Seeing the helmsman say this, many people had only one thought in their minds: it's over.

I originally thought that this exiled island would at least not be as easy to freeze or starve to death as Ningguta, and at least there would be fish and seafood.

Wang Zifu was completely confused before he saw the situation in the distance at the dock.

Shi Cedong looked at his subordinates' coastal map, searching for the location of the Dan'er County government office. "No, there's a Dan'er County government established to govern the mountains and forests, but there's no county office or county governor there yet!"

The old man with a silver beard was sitting in the main seat playing cards. I was wearing woven straw sandals, with my silver hair pinned crookedly with a wooden hairpin, and the sleeves of my tattered clothes were not even as short as my elbows.

Now it seems that they were too naive. Such a pristine island is a favorite habitat for these animals and birds of prey. If the tide rises, they can only run from the shore to the mountains, which is fatal!

The fugitives followed Jiang Lili in silence towards Dan'er County, hoping that the place would become more prosperous once they reached the county government office.

When the other eight people heard the look in the old man's eyes, they all felt some sympathy and said helplessly as if coaxing a child: "Okay, okay, he is the county magistrate, he has the final say."

Shi Cedong couldn't help but ask Jiang Lili, who had the least official information, "Is there really no one living there?"

Wang Zifu looked towards the north with the telescope in his hand. There was no dense forest in the mountains about seven or eight meters away from the pier.

Wang Zifu only now realized how difficult it was to develop a pristine island.

The environment in front of me was no different from that at Cangsha Ferry just now. The so-called government office was just eight thatched bamboo houses with tattered roofs, as if several layers of thatch had been blown away by the wind.

The deserted island that Wang Zifu imagined was not much different from the island where he had stayed to avoid the storm.

Seeing the county government office behind them, everyone fell silent, even the chattering children stopped.

The old man with silver beard frowned, rolled his eyes, and hurriedly put down the cards in his hand: "Oh, it's hit, your bat is going to be burnt!"

That dilapidated place seemed to be forgotten by time and was more desolate than deserted.

Rong Yi felt that his life was hellish. "I had originally thought that there would be no ships coming and going over there, so I couldn't just squat there and take advantage of the situation. But after seven or eight days, there wasn't even a trace of a fishing boat, let alone a merchant ship."

Wang Zifu looked at the white things under the wooden skewer, and they really looked like bats!

A row of seagulls flew by, and their cries made the place where the birds were shitting even quieter. No one felt abandoned by the world.

The other eight of us were much younger than the old man, but judging by our clothing and living conditions, we were also much worse off. "Old man, he's slow to play!"

The other eight people saw that the old man with the silver beard was having fun, and they cursed and accused him: "Old man Hu, did he see that he was going to lose and find an excuse to slip away?"

As the two ships gradually approached, the true appearance of Cangsha Ferry gradually became unclear along the winding coastline.

Is there no one in that damn place to take care of our family? I should have believed these people's lies. Now I have to fend for myself out there!

Mo? What's roasting under the fire?

The imperial court probably did not just set up an administrative district symbolically, but it had already been in charge before.

A few lonely masts were abandoned on the shore. The two large ships anchored there were not yet riddled with holes, and weeds were growing wildly under the horses' heads.

The silver-bearded old man, known as Old Man Hu, picked up the wooden skewer and sniffed the grilled food beneath it. "So what? Old man, you're the lowest official in that place. They all have to do your bidding!"

Yang Baoshan's face was extremely ugly, and he didn't feel cheated. "That bird is a place for shitting, and the county governor must have been demoted! It seems that even the local county magistrate is like this."

Two boatmen lowered the ladder from under the boat with a rope, and the first one jumped from the ladder to the bottom of the dock, and tied the rope to the pier under the dock and fixed it. We were not afraid that the wooden pier would break at any time, so we called on everyone to get on the boat quickly.

The older kids, like the younger ones, had no such worries. They looked at the magnificent primeval forest nearby and the seagulls flying across the sky, and were simply amazed by everything: "Wow, you're going to live by the sea!"

There are some coconut trees growing under the wasteland, which is not much different from the well-developed islands you see when you are on a fishing boat in modern times.

Seven people were playing mahjong together behind the thatched hut. A little further away from us, a simple barbecue grill made of stones was built, and eight white things were being grilled on wooden sticks.

"Hey, let's go!" Jiang Lili took the lead and walked behind to lead the way: "Dan'er County is seven miles away from the dock. Let's go to the county government office to report first."

The setting sun was like blood, shining on the mottled wooden boards and rotten pillars of the pier.

The anchormen of the two ships observed the situation at the berth before dropping anchor.

"You heard that children at the beach can go fishing. Can you also go fishing on the beach in the morning?"

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